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Williamstown’s girls faced two tough teams to start the Grant County Invitational, but also faced other adversity.

Against Sayre and Ludlow, the Lady Demons were unable to come away with a win, falling 49-33 to Sayre and 74-47 to Ludlow. During their game against Sayre, the Lady Demons lost one of their top players as Tori Wilhoit sprained her ankle, forcing her out of the game and left her on the bench against Ludlow. They hoped to have her back for their next game against Dayton on Dec. 22.

A free smoking cessation program can help you save more than $21 per week if you successfully quit smoking, based on the average cost of cigarettes for someone who smokes a pack a day.

Three sessions of the Cooper-Clayton smoking cessation program start soon. The Cooper-Clayton Method to Stop Smoking program is a comprehensive, 13-week program that helps participants stop smoking with peer support, educational guidance and nicotine replacement therapy. Classes will meet once a week at each of the following three times and locations:

The city council adopted an ordinance on Monday, Dec. 22, allowing alcohol sales by the drink at restaurants and dining facilities with a seating capacity of at least 100 people and which derive at least 70 percent of their gross receipts from the sale of food.

The ordinance came after voters passed a local option to allow alcohol sales in the November election.

Mayor Clay Crupper said an ordinance needed to be passed within 60 days after the election.

When Felicity Spicer walks into a room, her 100-watt smile gets noticed.

Spicer’s charm, personality and poise garnered her the title of 2008 Grant County High School Homecoming Queen which led to an invitation to make an appearance at the Liberty Bowl on Jan. 2 in Memphis.

“This door is definitely opened by the hand of God because I couldn’t have dreamed of such an honor,” Spicer said.

For Jeremy Souder, decorating at Christmas time is a tradition his children don’t ever forget.

“It’s something me and my kids do together every year. If it wasn’t for them, I probably wouldn’t do everything we do,” Souder said. “But it’s what we do. We’ve got more decorations in the attic that we didn’t put out this year.”

With their house on Main Street in Williamstown, the Souders decorate and display their Christmas spirit to all who pass by.

Union College’s Nathan Koebcke was one of 264 student-athletes to be honored as a 2008 Daktronics-NAIA Men’s Soccer Scholar-Athlete.

Koebcke, a junior goalkeeper from Williamstown, is the 15th player in program history to be honored as Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athlete. The last Bulldog to make the list was Dustin Isom in 2006. In all, 17 Union players have made the team since 1998.

It is that time of year again, the time you sit down and make your list of things you’ll do different or things you want to change. And if you’re anything like me, around Jan. 2, the New Year’s resolutions that you made already seem to be forgotten.

I don’t know what it is about the resolutions that make them so hard for me to stick to them. Maybe I make too many, or maybe I make the same ones each year hoping that this year will be different.